Last day to sign players. London are done with the Wire back rower. HKR still looking, Fax getting no DR players from Reds so may strengthen. Wides linked with players.

So today we find out who makes fourth place. Toulouse have to beat Featherstone, failing to do so means Halifax are in the mix.

And they did! So HKR to beat Fax and Toulouse in middle 8's

So we will have wire Leigh Toulouse and fev at home. We have Widnes on there plastic pitch.
As long as we take first points against Leigh they are beatable, I would say the same with wire
Couple of shocks maybe?

Duffman failed to work his magic for the flat cappers. Who will go into the middle 8s in poor form.
Halifax know what they have to do. Against Hull KR it will be difficult though.

Fax won, though I think HKR gave them it. Pity, but Fax will not be a threat to anyone

Fax are the form team, they've beaten HKR, TO and Fev in the last 4 weeks. Don't write them off

I am going to predict, that on Wednesday we get Catalan away on the first weekend. That is Saturday 5th August.
My theory is the RFL will make the assumption that the London away support is insignificant and therefore stick them in early and at short notice. They do not matter. They have done it before at short notice. The moved the game from Saturday to Sunday for TV a few years ago. Upset a few that did!
I have just looked at Ryanair and to fly out early Saturday and back Sunday afternoon is currently £111 for the round trip. That is from Stansted.

Would Fev and Fax take a larger support do you think?

Someone has to go there first! Why not us? Arguably we have easier transport options to get out there, more airports, Eurostar all on our doorstep.

So fev and fax down at our place, our performance on Sunday was an improvement on the last couple of home games, we were pretty solid in defence, so two games we should win. Leigh defence record is pretty good, they have shipped 190 points so not going to be easy to breakdown, think we are going to need some magic on the fringes.
KR away is the key, can see the rfl leaving that game till late on.
For me let's have fax fev and Widnes as first 3 in whatever order secure at least 4 points, if we beat or run Widnes close then Leigh and KR will start to worry about us

Any news on the captains injury?

It looked suspiciously like ACL

All quiet on the site are we all waiting for the fixtures



Any news on our captain?

Can you feel the tension from the screen

According to Instagram/Twitter, he is on holiday in Croatia walking around on it so, it can't be that bad.

He should be on the tackle bags with the rest of them!

I really believe we can make the MPG. will be tough as we will need to beat one SL team at home maybe Widnes and Hull KR. If we keep our forwards fit - Battye looks to be getting back into his stride and Rocky has finally started playing. Hope spencer is ok as he's been unlucky with injuries. Not sure what's happened to Offerdahl? Still it gives more opportunity for Davis and Bienek which is good. Still think Barthau is our most crucial player to pull the strings in the halves so hoping he's back soon and Ioane has been immense all season. Hoping to make it to at least one away game. COYB

So which of the super league teams are going to blow it then?

They have all been given time off.

Sat 5 Aug Catalans away on Sky
Sun 13 Aug Fev home
Sun 20 HKR away

Last game Leigh Sun 24 Home

Not fallen too bad for us.

Now to plan trip to Perps

HOME
13/08: Rovers
02/09: Wolves
10/09: Halifax
22/09: Centurions
AWAY
05/08: Catalans
20/08: Hull KR
17/09: Vikings

Catalan away, just as I thought. Luckily I booked my Hotel rooms on Monday as availability was not great in the centre of Perpignan.
Flights sorted. Bring it on.

Wonder why Leigh is on Friday and not Sunday... Is it in case Sky put it on TV, as friday night is a real pain, and cant see many away fans coming down on a friday....

Happy with how the fixtures are split..... Got to target Widnes away as well as Leigh Home... would not be surprised if one or both of them are on TV.